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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
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Subject: Re: FAUG meeting
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Date: 8 Jun 89 10:03:00 GMT
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I'm receiving a LOT of email from people out-of-town asking about the FAUG
meeting scheduled for June 13, so it seems appropriate to post this:

The FAUG meeting is held in the rear conference room(s) of the Palo Alto Hyatt
Hotel located at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto between San Antonio Road and
Embarcadero Rd.

Meeting "officially" starts at 7PM, but in reality nothing gets going until
7:30 or so.

The Hyatt is the 8 or 9 story building located next to a Denny's (which is at
4256 El Camino Real).  In fact, one must enter the driveway between the Hyatt
and Denny's to get to the rear parking lots.  The Hyatt building is the tallest
one around and, at 7PM, the sun is still up and everything's quite visible.

For those of you who recall the MIT "jargon.txt" file, the road named "El
Camino Real" is colloquially known as "El Camino Double Precision" because it
is 4-lanes wide in each direction at this point; the Hyatt is on the SouthWest
(mountain) side of the road.  The building resembles a miniature Ceasar's
Palace (for those of you who've been to Las Vegas (aka Lost Wages :-)) but I
don't believe the water fountains are operating (there IS a water shortage
here.)

The admission is ~$5 for non-members, and there is a wet bar in the meeting
room (serving soft drinks, beer, mixed drinks and demon rum :-)

I suggest getting there by 7:15PM to assure seating.  I don't have any part in
the organizing of the meetings, so am not sure how much room will be available.
Attendance is usually 200-300 people, but there have been as many as 1,000+ at
the meeting featuring Max Toy last year.

The meetings usually break ~10:30PM and a number of us partake pizza/beer
dinner at one of the better places around: "Frankie, Johnny and Luigi's Too",
in Mountain View, about 2-1/2 miles south of the Hyatt, and you're welcome to
join us (Dutch treat; approx. $10/person).

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]